Back of the neck is done, I used 'Arizona Orange' which is the only orange stain I could find in this prehistoric place
Tomorrow I will try to sand and stain the fretboard and sand the headstock. Oh and also polish the frets!
This is all just preliminary work as I've ordered dot inlays - only orange ones I could find was in China and minimum order is 50 whahaha! So then once the inlays are done I will do the entire neck again for final finish(after the headstock is painted).
The body is done sanded and ready to paint(I hope), I nearly messed it up twice - tried to cut a slot to give the bridge a flat seating which luckily I tested out first out of sight and then luckily saw that boat won't sail. Next was with so called wood primer which was a complete hoax and dissappeared into the grain(this is still slightly visible after sanding).
So now we've tested the paint(acrilyc by hand) on a couple other planks and it doesn't drain into the grain at all so I've sanded the body to a slight shine when it's held in the light(feels damn nice for a newbie I must say hehe) and handed it over to my GF for painting!
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